Nohemi Medina Martinez and Tania Yulizsa Ramirez.Photo: Facebook
A 25-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man have been arrested and charged with femicide in connection to the killings of Yulizsa Ramírez and Nohemí Medina Martínez, according toa statementfrom the Chihuahua Attorney General’s office.
Mexican authorities do not release surnames of their suspects. The man and woman have been identified only as Jaqueline Isela CR and David R.
According to authorities, the suspects allegedly contacted Ramírez and Martínez on Jan. 15 and brought them to a home in the town of San Isidro — where investigators said they believe the murders took place.
Local police obtained a search warrant for the home, where they found “sufficient evidence that the double crime was committed,” the attorney general’s office said.
The suspects are set to appear in court on Jan. 28.
Ramírez and Martínez were both originally from Juarez and were residing in El Paso, according to their Facebook pages.
The two women were visiting family in the city at the time of their deaths and were last heard from one day prior to their bodies being found,El Diarioreports.
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According to multiple reports, Ramírez and Martínez are two of four women who have been killed in Juarez in a matter of days. At least nine other women have been killed since the beginning of the year.
“In this case, the investigation lines are linked to the economic activity that both victims carried out and with the people they related to in that environment,” the attorney general’s office said in a statement to the publication.
source: people.com
